Media Fellow alumni After three decades, 350 Fellows, thousands of articles, and countless people engaged with the biggest scientific news stories of our time, the British Science Association is seeking a new partner to deliver the Media Fellowship programme. To celebrate the scheme and those that have taken part, we’ve compiled a list of all our Media Fellow alumni from 1987-2020, as well as a selection of more detailed case studies and blogs. We'd like to express our gratitude to all the Fellows, media hosts, sponsors, organisations and individuals that have been a part of the scheme since 1987. If there are any errors in names, dates or placements, please contact us at [email protected] and we will update our records accordingly. 1987 Andrew Crane placed at The Independent Bill Hirst placed at BBC TV Science and Features Department Bryan Sykes placed at Channel 4 News David Cooper placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Gordon Hayward placed at BBC External Services Meriel Jones placed at The Guardian Peter Campion placed at BBC TV Continuing Education Department Philip Lightowlers placed at New Scientist 1988 Chris Westcott placed at BBC External Services Christine Hewitt placed at The Independent David Crowther placed at The Observer Frank Burnet placed at Today Jennifer Cox placed at The Guardian John Masters placed at Times Higher Education John Woodley placed at BBC TV News Nick Butler placed at New Scientist Stephen Donnelly placed at BBC Radio Science Unit 1989 Anita Thomas placed at Channel 4 News Anna Taylor (nee Coyle) placed at The Independent Clive Woods placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Hilary Mason placed at The Times Norman Bowery placed at BBC Tomorrow's World Peter Moore placed at Yorkshire Television Phillippa Towler placed at BBC External Services Richard Tapper placed at Today Sarah Law placed at New Scientist Timothy Cawston placed at BBC TV News 1990 Adrian Pickering placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Jan Peters placed at BBC Radio Woman's Hour Judith Graham placed at Channel 4 News Julie Loughridge placed at Today and New Scientist Keith Hart placed at BBC World Service Peter Quantick placed at Yorkshire Television Stephen Allen placed at The Independent 1991 Adam Hill placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Cynthia Farleigh placed at BBC TV News Elizabeth Fisher placed at BBC World Service Frank Ashall placed at The Independent Margaret Raybuck placed at The Observer Pierre Graves placed at The Press Association Terry McMaster placed at Today Therese McCall placed at BBC TV News 1992 Carol Nairn placed at Radio 4 Science Unit Gillian Pearce placed at BBC World Science Unit James Gillies placed at BBC World Service Jennifer Lynch placed at Financial Times John Paul Cassella placed at ITN and Channel 4 Lisa Hole placed at BBC Radio News and BBC TV News Margaret Mitchell placed at The Guardian Robert Hill placed at BBC Science Unit Ruth McKernan placed at The Independent Timothy Reynolds placed at Tomorrow's World 1993 Ann Barrett placed at The Independent Cristina de Matteis placed at BBC News and Current Affairs David Gregory placed at BBC News and Current Affairs David Weitzman placed at Times Higher Education Elizabeth Lindley placed at The Guardian James Shippen placed at Radio 4 Science Unit John Moylan placed at Tomorrow's World Tim Jickells placed at BBC World Service 1994 Andrew Coates placed at BBC World Service Andrew Derrington placed at Financial Times Barbara Knowles placed at BBC Radio 4 Science Unit Colin McGuckin placed at Times Higher Education Jonathan Salkeld placed at BBC TV Katherine Huddersman placed at BBC News and Current Affairs Kevin Markland placed at BBC TV Pebble Mill Neil Hutton placed at TES Sue Alexander placed at The Guardian 1995 Andrew McDonald placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Carl Schaschke placed at Tomorrow's World Carolyn Heeps placed at BBC Pebble Mill David Vaughan placed at BBC World Service Dorothy Crawford placed at New Scientist Jane Evans placed at TES Jane Itzhaki placed at New Scientist Janet Thorn placed at BBC News and Current Affairs Nick Petford placed at Times Higher Education 1996 Carol Jones placed at Financial Times David Rothery placed at BBC News and Current Affairs Jane Alfred placed at The Guardian Juliette Vickery placed at Times Higher Education Mark Griffiths placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Morgan Parry placed at BBC TV Pebble Mill Shane Clarke placed at Birmingham Post Stephen Molyneux placed at Tomorrow's World Wendy Purcell placed at BBC World Service 1997 Cath Cotton placed at Times Higher Education Chris Boyd placed at The Express Jane Cecil placed at BBC Countryfile Jim Thomas placed at New Scientist Julia Hargreaves placed at Radio Science Unit Julia West placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Len Fisher placed at Tomorrow's World Rachel Bartlett placed at BBC World Service 1998 Andrew Kerr placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Andrew York placed at New Scientist Calum MacKellar placed at The Express Carolynne Moore Clare Blackledge placed at The Guardian Martin Maudsley placed at BBC Countryfile Nicola Birtwistle placed at Tomorrow's World Sarah Wedden Susan Eley placed at Times Higher Education Thomas Barlow placed at The Financial Times 1999 Claire Cockcroft placed at The Guardian David Thomas placed at Times Higher Education Donna Worship placed at BBC Countryfile Emily Shuckburgh placed at Tomorrow's World Jon Sutton placed at New Scientist Paul Cooper placed at Nature Perdita Barran placed at BBC Radio Stella Bradbury placed at BBC Look North 2000 Alison George placed at The Guardian Alison Wright placed at BBC Science Unit Elspeth Bartlet placed at BBC Countryfile Emma Cunningham placed at Times Higher Education Jenny Gimpel placed at Financial Times Kathryn Phillips placed at BBC Science Online Mary Sheridan placed at the Daily Telegraph Matthew Zepf placed at BBC Science Unit Oliver de Peyer placed at Nature Victoria Furmidge placed at BBC Countryfile 2001 Chandrika Nath placed at the Daily Telegraph David Barlow placed at Times Higher Education Ellen Bazeley-White placed at BBC Science Interactive Helen Pilcher placed at einstein.tv Katie Woolley placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Lillian Lywan Ng placed at The Guardian Melody Clark placed at Tomorrow's World Peter Burdon placed at Focus Peter Foote placed at the Irish Times Susan Barker placed at BBC Countryfile 2002 Alison Fairclough placed at einstein.tv Barbara Gallani placed at the Daily Telegraph Chrissie Davies placed at the Financial Times Emma Napper placed at the Irish Times Jennifer Bond placed at The Guardian Julian Trick placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Matthew Saxton placed at the BBC Nicola Lower placed at BBC Countryfile Peter Lumsden placed at Times Higher Education Ralph Rapley placed at Tomorrow's World 2003 Andrew Read placed at Irish Times Anton Immink placed at Tomorrow's World Chris Chaloner placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Esther Ingram placed at Times Higher Education Joanne Baker placed at Nature Online Kristine Krug placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Louise Cross nee Dyga placed at BBC Countryfile Lucy Rogers placed at The Guardian Orla Kennedy based at the Daily Telegraph 2004 Aoife O Mongain placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Barnaby Smith placed at BBC Countryfile Helen Soteriou placed at The Guardian Lisa Wright placed at Financial Times Mark Steer placed at BBC Countryfile Martyn Bull placed at Times Higher Education Matt Egan placed at the Irish Times Peter Wood placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Sally Appleton placed at the Daily Telegraph Zeeya Merali placed at Nature 2005 Ainsley Newson placed at The Times Alison Ross placed at BBC Radio and News Online Helen Czerski placed at Times Higher Education Helen Margerison placed at BBC Countryfile Jennifer Wild placed at Nature Laura Bach placed at The Guardian Mark Mon-Williams placed at Research Research Olivia Johnson placed at BBC Radio and News Online Stephanie de Bono placed at The Daily Telegraph Victoria Burns placed at The Irish Times 2006 Courtenay Norbury placed at the Irish Times Elli Leadbeater placed at the BBC Hannah Devlin placed at The Times Helen O'Brien placed at The Guardian Lucy Heady placed at Nature Maria Campbell placed at BBC Countryfile Mark Rodgers placed at Times Higher Education Mary McGee Wood placed at Research Research Natasha Tian placed at The Scotsman Sima Adhya placed at Financial Times 2007 Claire Witham placed at Countryfile Elizabeth Seward placed at BBC Radio and News Online Kirstin Goldring placed at Irish Times Leonora Weil placed at The Times Louise Sutton placed at Times Higher Education Mary Muers placed at Nature Michael Wilson placed at The Scotsman Rehana Jawadwala placed at the Daily Mirror and the Science Media Centre Simon Belt placed at BBC Horizon Tristan Farrow placed at The Guardian 2008 Angela Hodges placed at BBC News Channel Ashok Jansari placed at Irish Times Elizabeth Mitchell placed at BBC Radio and News Online Emma Byrne placed at the Financial Times Frances Harris placed at Farming Today and Costing The Earth Jennifer Carpenter placed at BBC Radio and News Online Katrina Charles placed at Nature Lorna Dawson placed at BBC Countryfile Marcus Pearce placed at The Guardian Matthew Rooney placed at Times Higher Education 2009 David Schley placed at Times Higher Education Fiona Tomkinson placed at Nature Griet Scheldeman placed at BBC Radio and News Online Jeremy O'Brien placed at The Irish Times Kate Mandeville placed at The Times Lori Frater placed at BBC Wales Mark Sergeant placed at the Mirror and the Science Media Centre Pat Monaghan placed at The Scotsman Rosie Chance placed at BBC Countryfile Simon Choppin placed at The Guardian Sudeep Chand placed at BBC Radio and News Online 2010 Alison Jones placed at Irish Times Becky Hothersall placed at BBC Countryfile Catherine Davies placed at Times Higher Education THE Colette Jones placed at The Scotsman Felix Greaves placed at the Financial Times Howard Falcon-Lang placed at BBC Radio and News Online Jean Adams placed at The Times Kate Larkin placed at Nature Katie Alcock placed at BBC Radio and News Online Monica Desai placed at The Guardian 2011 Amy Chesterton placed at the Naked Scientists Amy Strange placed at the Irish Times Andrew Wright placed at Times Higher Education Elena Hoicka placed at The Scotsman Hamish Pritchard placed at BBC Radio and News Online Lee Sweetlove placed at Nature Leila Battison placed at BBC Radio and Online Nathan Green placed at The Guardian Richard Walters placed at The Times Tom Crick placed at BBC Wales 2012 Andrew Holding placed at BBC Horizon Geraint Jones placed at The Guardian Gina Maffey placed at BBC Countryfile Helen Bridle placed at The Scotsman John Parrington placed at The Times Jonathan Ball placed at BBC Radio and News Online Kathryn Lougheed placed at Nature Ling Ge placed at the Financial Times Nick Crumpton placed at BBC Radio and News Online Rebecca Wilson placed at the Irish Times 2013 Emma Boland placed at The Scotsman Gavin Collins placed at The Irish Times Kirsty MacLeod placed at BBC Countryfile Lucy Maddox placed at The Times Mark Viney placed at New Scientist Natalie Starkey placed at The Guardian Richard Johnston placed at Nature News Simon Redfern placed at BBC Science Radio Unit and News Online Suzi Gage placed at BBC Science Radio Unit and News Online Tamsin Gray placed at BBC Newcastle 2014 Michel Destrade placed at The Irish Times Michael Eyre placed at the BBC Victoria Forster placed at The Times Maria Dasi Espuig placed at the BBC Nishad Karim placed at the Guardian Aditee Mitra placed at BBC Countryfile Tyler Shendruk placed at The Financial Times Anna Simmonds placed at Nature Anna Williams placed at New Scientist Rhian Meera placed at Telesgop 2015 Anastasia Christakou placed at Nature Lucy Potter placed at Mirror Online Martha Finnegan placed at The Irish Times Philip Oldfield placed at The Guardian Rachel Isba placed at BBC Breakfast Sarah Bell placed at the Londonist Susan Skelton Spesyvtseva placed at BBC Scotland Susanna Jolly placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Yasmin Ali placed at BBC Radio Science Unit 2016 Denis Schluppeck placed at The Financial Times Howard Ryland placed at the Londonist Jessica Steventon placed at Open Democracy Jonathan Sullivan placed at BBC Radio Science Petra Szilágyi placed at Nature Robert Thompson placed at BBC Radio Science Rowenna Baldwin placed at Channel 4 Spencer Hazel placed at The Times Theodore Wilson placed at The Mirror Vanesa Martinez placed at The Irish Times Nicky Danino placed at BBC Breakfast Ivor Mason placed at The i 2017 James Rudd placed at The Guardian Charlotte Brassey placed at BBC News Alex Lees placed at BBC Breakfast Paul McGarr placed at New Scientist Rebecca Dewey placed at the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 Aravind Vijayaraghavan placed at MediaCityUK Salford Charlotte Warren-Gash placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Gary Zhang placed at The i Kate Wright placed at The Times Laura Castells Navarro placed at Nature Sarah Gabbott placed at BBC Radio Science Unit Alex Conner placed at the Mirror Online Fiona Reid placed at Open Democracy 2018 Nazima Pathan placed at BBC Health News Holly Reeve placed at the Mirror Oli Buckley placed at Sky News Yuhsuan Tsai placed at BBC Wales Emilie Combet placed at The Herald Times Peter Barlow placed at BBC Scotland Angus Davison placed at BBC Radio Science Layal Liverpool placed at The Guardian Lucy Green placed at BBC Radio Science Amanda Rossiter placed at The i Jonathan Nichols placed at MediaCityUK Salford Justyna Kulczyk-Maleka placed at MediaCityUK Salford Clare Elwell placed at the Financial Times Licia Capra placed at The i Gemma Bale placed at the Jeremy Vine Show 2019 Aditi Kar placed at The i Anna Ploszajski placed at The Guardian Bana Shriky placed at the Daily Mail Catrin Rutland placed at Sky News Duncan Mascarenhas placed at MediaCityUK Giulia Barbareschi placed at the BBC Lena Ciric placed at the BBC Martin Mangler placed at the Londonist Michael Pascoe placed at BBC Wales Michelle Fernandes placed at BBC Future Natalie Masento placed at Jeremy Vine Phil Porter placed at BBC Radio Science 2020 Clare Oliver-Williams placed at The Economist Jerone Andrews placed at BBC Future Martin Khechara placed at The Naked Scientists Monica Lakhanpaul placed at the BBC Priti Parikh placed at New Scientist Richard Colchester placed at WIRED UK If you’d like to find out more about our most recent Media Fellow cohort and their experiences of the scheme, we have a three-part Q&A series: Media Fellow Q&A #1: Science journalism reaches new heights Media Fellow Q&A #2: Headlines and deadlines Media Fellow Q&A #3: A global newsroom For more detailed insights into the Fellows’ experiences, this selection of case studies brings together individual accounts from 1987 to 2013. 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